Preferably lxcproc should stop using hardcoded names and detect devices it wants to talk to by their subsystem and properties. If it wants to it could ship some udev rules to help with identification or creating symlinks; but symlinks aren't supposed to help programs find devices, they are mostly a "human readable" thing. Thus wontfix in udev itself.
** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1186569 Title: Imon LCD device number changes each boot Status in “lcdproc” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: LCD display does not output anything, only back light works. sudo LCDd -f -r 4 gives follow output: Server running in foreground Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666 imonlcd: using Device /dev/lcd0 imonlcd: ERROR opening /dev/lcd0 (No such file or directory). imonlcd: Did you load the iMON kernel module? Driver [imonlcd] init failed, return code -1 Module /usr/lib/lcdproc/imonlcd.so could not be loaded Could not load driver imonlcd There is no output driver Critical error while initializing, abort. Display worked correctly on Ubuntu 12.04 Andrew ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: lcdproc 0.5.5-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-3.8-generic 3.9.4 Uname: Linux 3.9.0-3-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Jun 1 10:50:02 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-30 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130529) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lcdproc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lcdproc/+bug/1186569/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp